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About the Film
From award-winning filmmaker Dawn Porter comes The Lady Bird Diaries, a groundbreaking all-archival documentary film about Lady Bird Johnson, one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies. The feature film looks at the 123 hours of personal and revealing audio diaries that Lady Bird recorded during her husband’s administration. The film reveals Lady Bird as an astute observer of character and culture and a savvy political strategist. It recasts her crucial role in LBJ’s presidency and brings viewers behind the scenes of one of the most tumultuous and consequential periods in modern American history.
Explore Lady Bird Johnson's Audio Diaries
For more information about Lady Bird Johnson's audio diaries that she recorded from 1963 to 1969, please visit our LBJ Library resource page here.
lbjlibrary.org/life-and-legacy/lady-bird-johnson/lady-bird-johnson-audio-recordings
Tapper has written two New York Times bestselling novels, The Hellfire Club and The Devil May Dance, as well as the bestselling nonfiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, which was turned into a critically acclaimed film in 2020. A Dartmouth graduate and Philly native, he lives in Washington, DC, with his wife, daughter, and son.
About the Book
Bestselling author Jake Tapper’s newest thriller transports readers to the 1970s underground world of cults, celebrities, tabloid journalism, serial killers, disco, and UFOs.
It’s 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up—and in trouble. As they deal with the weirdness and menace of the time—celebrities, cults, the rise of tabloid journalism, the death of Elvis Presley, the Summer of Sam, and a time of national unease—Ike and Lucy soon realize that their worlds are not only full of compromises and bad choices, but danger. The decisions they make could mean life and death not only for them—but also their beloved parents.
Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States, died in 1973 and is buried at the LBJ Ranch, near his birthplace in Stonewall, Texas.
About the speaker:
Admiral William H. McRaven is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Make Your Bed and the New York Times bestsellers Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations and The Hero Code: Lessons Learned from Lives Well Lived. In his thirty-seven years as a Navy SEAL, he commanded at every level. As a Four-Star Admiral, his final assignment was as Commander of all U.S. Special Operations Forces. After retiring from the Navy, he served as the Chancellor of the University of Texas System from 2015 to 2018. He now lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Georgeann.
About the book:
McRaven’s new book, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) will be released on April 4, 2023. The title “Bullfrog” is given to the Navy SEAL who has served the longest on active duty. Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When Admiral McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community. In the ensuing four years, he served as Chancellor of the University of Texas System, with its 230,000 students and 100,000 faculty and health care workers.
During those four decades, Admiral McRaven dealt with every conceivable leadership challenge, from commanding combat operations—including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Phillips, and the raid for Osama bin Laden.
The Wisdom of the Bullfrog draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRaven’s incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service.
Panelists:
Nora Linares-Moeller, Executive Director, HousingWorks Austin
Adam Orman, Board President and co-founder, Good Work Austin
Peter Schwarz, Co-founder and consultant, Sound Music Cities
Selena Xie, President, Austin EMS Association
Moderator: Dan Solomon, Senior Editor, Texas Monthly
About the speakers:
Susan Ford Bales is the daughter of President Gerald R. Ford and Betty Ford. Susan was raised in Alexandria, Virginia and attended Holton Arms School and the University of Kansas, where she studied photojournalism. She is the author of two novels set in the White House, Double Exposure: A First Daughter Mystery, and its sequel, Sharp Focus.
During her high school years, Susan lived in the White House and served as official White House hostess following her mother’s surgery for breast cancer in 1974. In 1984, she and her mother helped launch National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Susan subsequently served as national spokesperson for breast cancer awareness. Since the founding of the Betty Ford Center in 1982, Susan worked side by side with her mother on projects at the Center and was elected to the Center’s Board of Directors in 1992. She succeeded her mother as Chairman of the Board from 2005 – 2010, and currently serves on the board of directors of the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
Susan has served as a Trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation since 1981 and currently serves as Co-Chair of the Foundation’s programs committee. Susan’s work with the Foundation centers on promoting the ideals of integrity, courage, and candor that were the hallmarks of her father and his distinguished service as a naval officer in World War II, member of Congress, and as vice president and president.
Director of five presidential libraries, a familiar face to viewers of C-SPAN and the PBS News Hour, Richard Norton Smith is the author of, among other works, Thomas E. Dewey and His Times, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation; and On His Own Terms; A Life of Nelson Rockefeller. His new biography of Ford draws on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents to present a thorough and surprising look at our 38th president.
About the speakers:
Richard Hyde is His Majesty’s Consul General in Houston and has been in this role since June 2019. As Consul General, he has overall responsibility for leading the UK’s engagement in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. His business priorities and responsibilities include developing political ties between the UK and the consular district; enhancing trade and investment partnerships; promoting science and innovation links and supporting the delivery of consular services to the many British nationals who have made this region their home.
As a career diplomat, Richard has served in a range of diplomatic and commercial positions around the world, including as Director, Caribbean and Central America at the Department for International Trade, based in Caracas, Venezuela and later San Jose, Costa Rica; Head, Advanced Manufacturing Investment team at UK Trade and Investment in London; British Deputy High Commissioner (Consul General) Hyderabad, India; and British Deputy High Commissioner (Consul General) Bangalore, India.
Pablo Marentes González has served as Consul General for Mexico in Austin since 2019. Formerly he was a Professor in the Political and Social Sciences Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and former consul general in New York and San Francisco.
Adriana Cruz serves as the Executive Director of the Economic Development and Tourism (EDT) division within the Office of the Governor. Cruz joined EDT with a robust background in economic development and business, having most recently served as the President of the Greater San Marcos Partnership.
This six-part virtual series explores these and other questions through lively conversations with eminent historians of American politics, diplomacy, and military affairs. Each session will begin with a moderated discussion led by LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence but will allow ample time for questions from the audience. Over six weeks leading up to Presidents’ Day, we will sweep across American history from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. We will examine presidents from Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, delving into their choices about war and peace as well as the implications of those decisions for the nation’s present and future.
About the speaker:
On February 2, 2023, Will Inboden will join us to talk about Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War.
William Inboden is Executive Director and William Powers, Jr. Chair at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas-Austin. He also serves as Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, and Editor-in-Chief of the Texas National Security Review. Previously he served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the NSC at the White House. Inboden also worked at the Department of State as a Member of the Policy Planning Staff and a Special Advisor in the Office of International Religious Freedom, and as a Congressional staff member in both the US House and Senate. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and member of the CIA Historical Advisory Panel and State Department Historical Advisory Council. Inboden's recent book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World, published November 2022, is an in-depth account of how Reagan's foreign policy won the Cold War and laid the foundations for the 21st century.
Participants include:
Representative Victoria Neave Criado, Chair of the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, Chair of the House County Affairs Committee, member of the Business and Industry Committee, District 107
Representative Shelby Slawson, Member of the Calendars, State Affairs, and Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committees, District 59
Representative Ed Thompson, Vice Chair, Natural Resources Committee, Member of the Appropriations and Calendars Committees, District 29
Moderator: Ashley Goudeau, News Anchor, KVUE
Marc J. Selverstone is associate professor in presidential studies and chair of the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. He is the author of The Kennedy Withdrawal: Camelot and the American Commitment to Vietnam (Harvard, 2022) and Constructing the Monolith: The United States, Great Britain, and International Communism, 1945-1950 (Harvard, 2009), which won the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. He is also the editor of A Companion to John F. Kennedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) and general editor of The Presidential Recordings Digital Edition(Virginia, 2010–).
About the speakers:
John Avlon is a senior political analyst and anchor at CNN. He is an award-winning columnist and the author of Independent Nation, Wingnuts, and Washington’s Farewell. His latest book Lincoln and the Fight for Peace was published last year, providing a groundbreaking history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War.Previously, he was the editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast and served as chief speechwriter for the Mayor of New York during the attacks of 9/11. He lives with his wife Margaret Hoover and their two children in New York.
Chris Whipple is an author, political analyst, and Emmy Award–winning documentary filmmaker. He is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, and has contributed essays to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Vanity Fair. His bestselling book, The Gatekeepers, analyzes the position of White House Chief of Staff, and his follow-up, The Spymasters, takes a comprehensive look at the CIA, based on interviews with nearly every living CIA Director. His new book, The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House, takes us inside the Biden Administration, including material derived from exclusive interviews with President Biden. Whipple lives in New York City with his wife Cary.w
This six-part virtual series explores these and other questions through lively conversations with eminent historians of American politics, diplomacy, and military affairs. Each session will begin with a moderated discussion led by LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence but will allow ample time for questions from the audience. Over six weeks leading up to Presidents’ Day, we will sweep across American history from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. We will examine presidents from Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, delving into their choices about war and peace as well as the implications of those decisions for the nation’s present and future.
About the speaker:
Elizabeth R. Varon is Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History at the University of Virginia and a member of the executive council of UVA's John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History. Varon grew up in northern Virginia. She received her PhD from Yale, and has held teaching positions at Wellesley College and Temple University. A specialist in the Civil War era and 19th-century South, Varon is the author of We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (1998); Southern Lady, Yankee Spy: The True Story of Elizabeth Van Lew, A Union Agent in the Heart of the Confederacy (2003), Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859 (2008) and Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War (2013). Southern Lady, Yankee Spy won three book awards and was named one of the “Five Best” books on the “Civil War away from the battlefield” in the Wall Street Journal. Appomattox won the 2014 Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction and was named one of National Public Radio’s “Six Civil War Books to Read Now.” Varon’s public presentations include book talks at the Lincoln Bicentennial in Springfield; and at Gettysburg’s Civil War Institute; and on C-Span’s Book TV. Her most recent book, Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, won the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and was named one of the Wall Street Journal's best books of 2019. She is currently working on a biography of James Longstreet, forthcoming with Simon & Schuster in 2023.
In this discussion, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Goodwin and sculptor Schwartz reflect on how their depictions of Lincoln—one in words and film, the other in bronze—create meaningful interpretations of this icon of American history. With her #1 New York Times bestselling Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin provides us with a groundbreaking interpretation of Lincoln, one that inspired Steven Spielberg’s award-winning movie Lincoln. Artist Ivan Schwartz is the founder of StudioEIS, the renowned sculpture and design studio located in Brooklyn that is responsible for many significant commemorative sculptures of iconic figures from American history, including sculptures of Lincoln that can be seen at the New York Historical Society, Gettysburg National Military Park, and President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington, D.C.
The conversation is moderated by Don Carleton, executive director of the Briscoe Center. The Briscoe Center is the archival home of the Doris Kearns Goodwin Papers and the Studio EIS Archive.
About Doris Kearns Goodwin:
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a celebrated presidential historian, preeminent public intellectual, and partner in Pastimes Productions. She is frequently seen on television putting today’s news into historical context.
Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Her bestselling book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys was adapted into an award-winning five-part television miniseries. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism was awarded the Carnegie Medal. Doris earned the Lincoln Prize for Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, which provided the basis for Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day-Lewis in an Academy Award-winning role as Lincoln. Her latest book, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, incorporates her five decades of scholarship studying Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Her most recent title is as executive producer of 24 hours of television miniseries for the HISTORY Channel.
About Ivan Schwartz:
Ivan Schwartz is the founder and director of StudioEIS. He is a sculptor, painter, and designer, with a keen interest in American history and the use of sculpture in the development of our national symbols.
With a degree in sculpture from the College of Fine Arts at Boston University, he was the recipient of a distinguished alumni award from Boston University in 2003 and has shown his work in New York since 1981. Ivan was a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts until the end of 2009 and was a founding board member of Art Omi, an international arts workshop. He was also President of Innovators in America, 2009-2011, working closely with Sir Harold Evans and Sarah Frank. Ivan’s visual memoir, Scratching the Surface, was published in 2021.
Director Haines’s keynote was held in-person in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium located at the LBJ Presidential Library.
About the speaker:
Avril Haines was sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence on January 21, 2021. She is the seventh Senate-confirmed DNI in our nation’s history and the first woman to lead the U.S. Intelligence Community.
DNI Haines has deep national security experience. During the Obama administration, she served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from 2015-2017, during which time she led the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee. From 2013-2015, Haines was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first woman to hold both of these positions. She initially joined the federal government as a civil servant and over the last two decades has worked in all three branches of government, in and outside of the intelligence community, and in academia as a research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
DNI Haines most recently led the Transition’s National Security and Foreign Policy Team and served as a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
DNI Haines received her bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago and a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
This six-part virtual series explores these and other questions through lively conversations with eminent historians of American politics, diplomacy, and military affairs. Each session will begin with a moderated discussion led by LBJ Library Director Mark Lawrence but will allow ample time for questions from the audience. Over six weeks leading up to Presidents’ Day, we will sweep across American history from the Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court House to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. We will examine presidents from Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, delving into their choices about war and peace as well as the implications of those decisions for the nation’s present and future.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Charlie Laderman is a senior lecturer in international history at the War Studies Department at King’s College, London, and a visiting research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His first book, Sharing the Burden: The Armenian Question, Humanitarian Intervention, and Anglo-American Visions of Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2019), was awarded the 2021 H. Wayne Morgan Prize for the best book on the political history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is the co-author, with Brendan Simms, of Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War (Basic Books, 2021).
Arrival of President Johnson's body to the LBJ Library, lying in state, removal of casket. This film was used in an exhibit at the Library.
LBJ Library production by Bill Anderson. 01/23/1973 and 01/24/1973. Public domain.
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of several books on the presidency, including Days of Fire and The Breach. Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a CNN global affairs analyst. Their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. They also co-authored The Man Who Ran Washington, a New York Times bestseller.
The Divider is, at least for the moment, the definitive account of the Trump presidency. Sweeping across four years of nearly constant crisis and controversy, the book examines one of America's most enigmatic presidencies, which included two impeachments, dramatic international events, a constantly shifting array of advisers, and the insurrection of January 6, 2021.
This conversation took place on December 13, 2022, at the LBJ Presidential Library.
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12851597?utm_source=youtube
About Doris Kearns Goodwin:
Doris Kearns Goodwin is a renowned presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times #1 best-selling author. She is best known as a preeminent public intellectual, presidential historian, and biographer frequently seen on television putting today’s news into historical context.
Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. Her bestselling book The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys was adapted into an award-winning five-part television miniseries. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism was awarded the Carnegie Medal.
About Don Carleton:
Don Carleton is the executive director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History and J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of twelve books, including The Governor and the Colonel: A Dual Biography of William P. Hobby and Oveta Culp Hobby, Red Scare, A Breed So Rare, and Conversations with Cronkite. He is also the executive producer of two PBS documentaries: When I Rise (2010) and Cactus Jack: Lone Star on Capitol Hill (2016). In 2015, the Texas Democracy Foundation honored him with its Bernard Rapoport Award.
Hosts Mark Lawrence and Mark Updegrove look back on 10 of their favorite "With the Bark Off" moments from an incredible year.
Featured guests:
Amity Shlaes on Calvin Coolidge
John Farrell on Richard Nixon
Paul Gregory on Lee Harvey Oswald
Nicole Hemmer on Ronald Reagan
Jonathan Martin on Donald Trump
Pete Souza on Barack Obama
Gabriel Debenedetti on the legacies of Obama and Biden
Anthony Fauci on his own legacy
Ali Vitali on Queen Elizabeth II and female leadership
Darlene Superville and Julie Pace on Jill Biden's influence on Joe Biden's decision whether to run for reelection
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12684167?utm_source=youtube
About the speakers:
Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New York Times, a political analyst for MSNBC, and the author of Days of Fire and The Breach. Susan Glasser is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a CNN global affairs analyst. Their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow bureau chiefs for The Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising. They also coauthored The Man Who Ran Washington, a New York Times bestseller. They live in Washington, D.C.
About the book:
The inside story of the four years when Donald Trump went to war with Washington, from the chaotic beginning to the violent finale—an ambitious and lasting history of the full Trump presidency that also contains dozens of exclusive scoops and stories from behind the scenes in the White House, from the absurd to the deadly serious.
The Divider brings us into the Oval Office for countless scenes both tense and comical, revealing how close we got to nuclear war with North Korea, which cabinet members had a resignation pact, whether Trump asked Japan’s prime minister to nominate him for a Nobel Prize and much more. The book also explores the moral choices confronting those around Trump—how they justified working for a man they considered unfit for office, and where they drew their lines.
John Farrell is a former White House correspondent and Washington editor for the Boston Globe and a former Washington Bureau Chief and columnist for the Denver Post. He is also a best-selling and award-winning author whose works include Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century; Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned; and Richard Nixon: The Life, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize that he discussed in an earlier episode of this program.
His latest book, Ted Kennedy: A Life, explores Senator Kennedy’s remarkable 77 years, rife with inconceivable triumph and unimaginable tragedy.
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12464625?utm_source=youtube
Grover Cleveland hardly ranks among the most celebrated or accomplished of American presidents. Like Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, and other presidents of the late 19th century, Cleveland held office at a time when Congress dominated national political life and few Americans expected much of their chief executive. And yet closer inspection reveals a most remarkable president -- and not only because he is the only one to hold two non-consecutive terms.
Troy Senik is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush and a co-founder of the digital media company Kite & Key. Troy is also author of A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbably Presidency of Grover Cleveland (September 2022).
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12260673?utm_source=youtube
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Wedding Ceremony at the WH: December 12, 1967
C. Robb, Lynda exchanging marriage vows
C. Robb, Lynda approaching the altar
LBJ gives Lynda to C. Robb
C. Robb, Lynda exchange vows and leave the altar
CTJ, wedding party awaiting the bride at the altar
C. Robb, Lynda at the altar; close shot of couple's hands
LBJ, CTJ watching the ceremony
C. Robb, Lynda on stair landing facing the camera; Lynda throws the bouquet and the couple ascend the stairs
Wedding cake
C. Robb, Lynda, LBJ, CTJ, M/M Robb at the cake cutting ceremony
LBJ eating wedding cake
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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The Wedding Ceremony and Reception at the WH: December 12, 1967
Exterior view of the guests arriving for the ceremony
C. Robb, Lynda cut the wedding cake
Wedding party and guests dancing
C. Robb, Lynda on the landing of a flight of stairs overlooking the bridesmaids and guests; Lynda throws her bouquet
Wedding ceremony shot from rear of the chapel towards altar
C. Robb, Lynda pass through the arch of swords
Wedding party posing for pictures
Wedding party in reception line receive guests
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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The Wedding Ceremony at the WH: December 12, 1967
High angle view of the altar with the wedding party approaching and taking their position
Medium shot of LBJ, Lynda approaching the altar
LBJ gives Lynda to C. Robb; the couple approach the minister and exchange vows
The end of the ceremony; the bride, groom and the wedding party leave the altar area
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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[Outtakes log book page for this roll is missing. This description was prepared by LBJ Library staff]
Actor and actress performing a sketch about a couple's wedding and married life, with musical accompaniment, at unidentified location, perhaps a restaurant or club.
WH exterior, from different angles
[12/9/67] Bridesmaids preparing for the ceremony: having their hair dressed, nails trimmed, makeup applied; their red dresses hanging in a closet; red bows placed in their hair
Covered walkway to a WH entrance, shot through window from second floor
WH: CTJ conversing with a lady in a hallway
DC street and landscaping
[12/9/67] WH: Wedding party members proceeding to the ceremony: descending staircase as guests await; proceeding to the altar; LBJ escorting Lynda [These shots are quite chopped up. Nothing of the ceremony.]
[12/9/67] WH, after the ceremony: Lynda/C. Robb proceeding beneath arch of swords held high by marines in dress uniforms; members of the wedding party proceeding past guests (includes LBJ/CTJ, M/M James Robb)
[12/9/67] WH Yellow Oval Room: Wedding party posing for photographers; Lynda and C. Robb posing for photographers
[12/9/67] WH wedding reception: LBJ/CTJ, Lynda/C. Robb, M/M James Robb greeting guests in receiving line
[12/9/67] WH wedding reception: Lynda/C. Robb cut the wedding cake; LBJ/CTJ are present
[12/9/67] WH wedding reception: Couples dancing
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Mr. & Mrs. James S. Robb Reception at the City Tavern in Georgetown
LBJ speaks to the gathering from a podium
MC proposes a toast to C. Robb, Lynda
C. Robb speaks to the gathering and gives a toast
Lynda gives a toast and reads a speech
LBJ speaks to the guests
C. Robb and several guests make toasts
CTJ, Luci, PJN arriving at the reception
C. Robb, Lynda arrive
Lynda, C. Robb dancing and entertaining the guests
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Wedding Rehearsal in the WH East Room: December 8, 1967
Still photos of Lynda in her wedding gown
Women decorating the gift display room
Chef placing frosting on the wedding cake
Bess Abel, Cannon McAllister discussing floor plans
TV technicians setting up equipment
Painting of an early 1900's WH wedding; bride and groom have C. Robb and Lyndas' faces
Bridesmaids taking their positions for the rehearsal, CTJ looks on
LBJ holding Lyn
Several shots of the rehearsal; the veil is placed on Lynda's head
C. Robb, Lynda rehearse the exchange of vows
LBJ, Lynda practice the march down the aisle
Wedding party practices the walk down the aisle
Several views of the rehearsal
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Wedding Rehearsal in the WH East Room: December 8, 1967
Various views of LBJ, CTJ, Lynda, C. Robb mingling with wedding party during the rehersal
LBJ, Lynda practice the walk down the aisle
C. Robb, Lynda rehearse walking thru the arch of crossed swords
Bridesmaids and ushers practice walking down the aisle
Several views of the wedding party awaiting the start of the rehearsal
LBJ, Lynda practice walking down the aisle, bridesmaids take their positions
C. Robb, Lynda practice the approach to the altar and exchange of vows
LBJ watching the rehearsal
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
Outs Roll 12 of 19, Once in a Lifetime
C.Robb's Bachelor Party at the Army-Navy Club: December 7, 1967
Singer in a Marine Corps PFC uniform
Guests singing
LBJ addresses the gathering
C. Robb addresses the group
PJN makes a toast
LBJ ad-libbing with the gathering
Various views of the head table and the guests
LBJ, C. Robb laughing
LBJ addresses the gathering
Various views of the guests listening to the entertainment
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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[12/7/67] C. Robb's bachelor party at the Army-Navy Club: C. Robb shows pictures and sketches to LBJ
[12/7/67] Army-Navy Club: guests bring in a cake and a sign stating "Your last fling before you are fenced in"
[12/7/67] Army-Navy Club: C. Robb pulls string on the cake, jack-in-the-box pops out
[12/7/67] Army-Navy Club: C. Robb opens humorous gifts
[12/5/67] Congr. Boggs' buffet reception, Boggs residence, Washington, DC: C. Robb, Lynda (long), Mrs. Boggs posing on the front steps
[12/5/67] Boggs residence: LBJ, CTJ arrive
[12/5/67] Boggs residence: C. Robb, Lynda receiving LBJ,guests
[12/5/67] Boggs residence: LBJ, C. Robb, Lynda, Congr./M Boggs pose for pictures inside the house, PAN DOWN to the fireplace
[12/5/67] Boggs residence: living room; dining room; champagne buckets, paintings, china
[12/7/67] Bridesmaids party, WH: Luci playing with Lyn, CTJ, bridesmaids look on
[12/7/67] WH: Luci presents Lynda with an album containing old family photos
[12/7/67] WH: Lynda hands out favors to her bridesmaids
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Technicians and photographers setting up lights around the altar
WH: Men constructing scaffolds on the lawn
TV network mobile unit trucks
Paintings and silver tea service
C. Robb, Lynda posing for pictures
Chandelier
WH East Room: technicians and workmen
Workmen looking at blueprints
Scale model of the East Room
Workmen setting up partitions
Chandelier
Men setting up the altar
Workmen
Canon McAllister and Bess discussing preparations
Cameramen setting up equipment
Workers
Women ironing table cloths
Men stringing lights
Preparation of gift display room
Secretaries on the telephones
Staff workers looking at photos and printed programs
Gifts stored on shelves
Women opening boxes filled with gifts
WH: carpenters building on the grounds
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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TX: Lynda, C. Robb leave St. Barnabas Church
[12/1/67] WH: staff party; fireplace, flowers, food
[12/1/67] WH: Lynda, C. Robb, CTJ receiving guests
[12/1/67] WH: Lynda, C. Robb mingling with guests
[12/1/67] WH: C. Robb, Lynda talk with guests
[12/1/67] WH: LBJ, Lynda talk with guests
[12/3/67] Glass House: social aides party; guests sign a register book
[12/3/67] Glass House: fireplace
[12/3/67] Glass House: guests sign the book
[12/3/67] Glass House: C. Robb, Lynda sign the book
[12/3/67] Glass House: presentation of gifts
[12/3/67] Glass House: WH display of photos of WH brides of the past
Harriman residence: reception; C. Robb, Lynda and guests
Harriman residence: orchestra playing
Harriman residence: C. Robb, Lynda, Amb./M Averill Harriman receiving guests
Harriman residence: C. Robb, Lynda looking at the silver service gift
Harriman residence: reception line
Harriman residence: LBJ, CTJ arrive and move through the reception line
Harriman residence: LBJ, CTJ, C. Robb, Lynda looking at the silver service
Harriman residence: LBJ, Harriman talking
Harriman residence: reception line
Harriman residence: HHH/M moving through the reception line
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Lobster and party cakes being prepared in a kitchen
[11/26/67] Warrie Lynn Smith's lawn party and shower, San Antonio, TX: C. Robb, Lynda and Warrie Lynn in front of Smith house
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: decorations outside Lynn's house
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: guests around the pool
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: Warrie Lynn talking with C. Robb, Lynda and other guests
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: Warrie Lynn, Lynda looking at iron sculpture
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: C. Robb, Lynda talking with guests
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: Lynda talking with guests
[11/26.67] San Antonio, TX: Lynda, Warrie Lynn greeting LBJ, CTJ
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: LBJ, CTJ, C. Robb, Lynda, Luci, PJN posing with Warrie Lynn
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: LBJ arriving at San Antonio airport
[11/26/67] San Antonio, TX: floral arrangements and gift wrapped packages
[11/27/67] Kitchen shower, Austin, TX: house and pool
[11/27/67] Austin, TX: Lynda and friends posing for pictures
[11/27/67] Austin, TX: candelabrum, floral arrangements, gift-wrapped packages
[11/27/67] Austin, TX: Lynda opening gifts, guests looking on
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Costume Party: November 18, 1967
Guests dressed in varied costumes
Lynda, C. Robb arrive dressed as Late and Petruccio
Several guests in costume
Lynda, C. Robb mingle with the guests
Guests dancing
C. Robb, Lynda receiving guests
Female guests pay homage to C. Robb and a guest
More guests move through the reception line
Lynda reads to guests
C. Robb, Lynda dancing
Guests listen to C. Robb, Lynda
Guest reads a poem to the couple
C. Robb, Lynda open presents
Wedding cake being prepared
Chef places a crown on the cake
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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[11/17/67] WH: C. Robb, Lynda with TV interviewers Ray Shearer, Nancy Dickerson preparing for the interview
[11/17/67] WH: fireplace with fire burning
[11/17/67] WH: close shot of C. Robb, Lynda
[11/17/67] WH: TV technicians preparing for the interview
[11/17/67] WH: portrait of Ben Franklin over the fireplace
[11/17.67] WH: portrait of Dolly Madison
[11/17/67] WH: floral arrangement
[11/17/67] WH: Lynda being made up for the camera
[11/17/67] WH: TV technicians working in and around the couple
[11/17/67] WH: Nancy Dickerson
WH: LBJ, CTJ's 33rd wedding anniversary party; LBJ looks at wrapped gifts
WH: LBJ holds a young child in his lap
WH: LBJ blows a sparkler atop a cake
WH: LBJ, CTJ, C. Robb, Lynda pose in front of table laden with gifts; C. Robb reads a toast
WH: close shot of LBJ, CTJ
WH: entire party drinks a toast to LBJ, CTJ
WH: LBJ, CTJ pick up a gift-wrapped package
WH: anniversary cake, one slice missing
WH: gifts are unwrapped; Henritta Wyeth painting
WH: LBJ, CTJ shake hands with the guests
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: Lynda, CTJ arrive at the home and pose on the steps with Mrs. RSM
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: food settings
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: food being prepared in the kitchen
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: chandelier
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: floral arrangement
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: CTJ takes her place at the table
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: Lynda, CTJ talk with guests
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: Mrs. HHH
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: Lynda, Mrs. RSM and guests talking
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: various shots around the table
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: exterior of home
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: stewed onions in the oven
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: LBJ, CTJ's 33rd wedding anniversary gifts wrapped
[11/18/67] McNamara residence: C. Robb and friends play touch football
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Network interview of Lynda and Charles Robb by Nancy Dickerson
Lynda, C. Robb being interviewed
ABC newsman Frank Reynolds
Close shot of C. Robb
Zoom back to C. Robb and Lynda
Close shot of Lynda
Zoom back to C. Robb and Lynda
NBC newswoman Nancy Dickerson
C. Robb, Lynda being interviewed
Close shot of C. Robb
Zoom back to C. Robb and Lynda
Close shot of Lynda
Zoom back to Lynda and C. Robb
Nancy Dickerson
C. Robb, Lynda
Close shot of C. Robb
Close shot of Lynda
C. Robb, Lynda
Nancy Dickerson
C. Robb, Lynda
Close shot of Lynda
C. Robb, Lynda
Close shot of C. Robb
Close shot of Lynda
C. Robb, Lynda
C. Robb
Lynda, C. Robb
Close shot of Lynda grasping C. Robb's hand during the interview
Close shot of C. Robb
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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[11/8/67] Sulgrave Club: Justice/M Tom Clark recepion; chandelier and food settings
[11/8/67] Sulgrave Club: Lynda, C. Robb, Justice/M Clark receiving guests
[11/8/67] Sulgrave Club: musical combo playing
[11/8/67] Sulgrave Club: guests moving through the reception line
[11/8/67] Sulgrave Club: CTJ greeting C. Robb and Lynda in the reception line
Deason residence, TX: Kenwood home of Mrs. Willard Deason
Deason residence, TX: Lynda arriving
Deason residence, TX: Lynda, CTJ, Mrs. Deason and Mrs. J.J. Pickle on the steps to the house
Deason residence, TX: various shots of wrapped gifts
Deason residence, TX: Lynda and guests opening gifts; CTJ looking on
[11/5/67] Giles residence: food and cake settings
[11/5/67] Giles residence: Lynda, C. Robb arriving (interior)
[11/5/67] Giles residence: Lynda speaking, guests looking on
[11/5/67] Giles residence: Lynda opening gifts, guests looking on
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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Shower at Washington Club: November 4, 1967
[11/4/67] Washington Club: close shots of bas-relief wall carvings, bookcases, flower arrangements, murals, table settings, chandeliers, ornaments
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Lynda, Hostess Marta Ross reviewing guests
[11/4/67] Washington Club: CTJ arriving and greeting Lynda
[11/4/67] Washington Club: CTJ mingling with guests
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Luci arriving and greeting Lynda and Marta Ross
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Lynda mingling and talking with guests
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Musical combo playing
[11/4/67] Washington Club: CTJ talking with guests
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Various shots of gifts, packages
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Lynda, Marta Ross, CTJ and guest dining
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Lynda, guests unwrapping and displaying gifts
[11/4/67] Washington Club: Lynda thanking her guests after opening her gifts
[11/4/67] Madison Hotel: Lynda, C. Robb arrive
[11/4/67] Madison Hotel: Band playing
[11/4/67] Madison Hotel: Various shots of flowers and food
[11/4/67] Madison Hotel: Lynda, C. Robb receiving guests
[11/5/67] Capt. Gerald Giles residence: Various shots of cake and flowers
[11/5/67] Capt. Gerald Giles residence: Lynda, C. Robb arrive, Mrs. Giles greets them
[11/5/67] Capt. Gerald Giles residence: Lynda unwrapping gifts; various shots of guests looking on
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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LBJ Ranch: Lynda, C. Robb walking in a garden
LBJ Ranch: Lynda, C. Robb, Luci playing with Lyn in the yard
LBJ Ranch: Lynda, C. Robb walking in field
LBJ Ranch: Luci, PJN, Lyn in yard
LBJ Ranch: Lynda, C. Robb by the Pedernales walking towards the house and into the yard
PJN, Luci play with Lyn and beagle dogs
Lyn lying on the lawn
LBJ Ranch: flowers along the Pedernales and the ranch house
Entire Johnson family walking through a grassy field
Johnson family posing for pictures in a field
LBJ Ranch: LBJ, CTJ walk from field toward the house
LBJ Ranch: Lynda, C. Robb sitting in the living room
City Tavern Club: Lynda, C. Robb outside in the evening
City Tavern Club: Lynda, C. Robb, M/M Jack Hight receiving guests in a reception line; LBJ, CTJ, PJN, Luci pass through
Lynda, C. Robb, PJN, Luci, M/M Hights at a table
Guests dancing
Various shots of guests at tables
Lynda, C. Robb talk with guests
C. Robb gives a speech from his table
Guests dancing
Link to the full film MP1041 "Once in a Lifetime": youtu.be/TgOwveJup-c
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AF-1: Lynda, Charles Robb
Marine barrack signs; 8th and 1 (night)
Flower garden at night
Lynda arriving at the evening parade
LBJ, Gen. Green viewing the Evening Parade
LBJ, Lynda sign Marine Guest book
Marine Drum and Bugle Corps and color guard pass in review
American flag flying at night
Marine Drill Team
LBJ, Gen. Green viewing the color guard
Close shot of Capt. Charles Robb rendering a sword salute
Several views of Marine Corp Band and color guard performing
Capt. Charles Robb issuing commands
Marine Drum and Bugle Corp in concert formation
Drill Team performing
Officer, company comdr. render honors to LBJ
Marine Band and Drill Teams pass in review, LBJ, Gen. Green in the foreground
The nine justices are unelected, serve for life, and, until 1981, were all men. But their actions have helped define the American way of life for more than two centuries.
Join us for a talk about significant recent decisions, a historical view of the court and term limits, the power of the court, and what we anticipate this term.
Speakers:
Gloria Browne-Marshall, Professor of Constitutional Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Leah Litman, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Steve Vladeck, Professor of Law, University of Texas Law School
Moderator: Josh Gerstein, Senior Legal Affairs Reporter, POLITICO
This will be a live Zoom webinar. Attendees will be able to ask questions of the speakers using the Q&A function.
About the speakers:
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She teaches classes in Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She is a civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. Professor Browne-Marshall is a legal commentator who covers the United States Supreme Court and major cases. She has given commentary on Supreme Court decisions, impeachments of Donald Trump, police-involved civilian deaths, criminal law, racial justice, and constitutional questions on media such as CNN, NPR, BBC, MSNBC, CBS, WVON as well as newspapers nationwide. Professor Browne-Marshall is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
Professor Leah Litman teaches and writes on constitutional law, federal courts, and federal sentencing. Her research examines unidentified and implicit values that are used to structure the legal system, the federal courts, and the legal profession. Litman’s recent work has appeared or will appear in the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Texas Law Review, Duke Law Journal, and Northwestern Law Review, among other journals. Her writing for popular audiences has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and Slate; she also is a regular contributor to the Take Care blog. She is one of the co-hosts and creators of Strict Scrutiny, a podcast about the U.S. Supreme Court, and a co-creator, with Emily Prifogle, of Women Also Know Law, a tool to promote the work of women and non-binary academics.
Stephen I. Vladeck holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas School of Law and is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. Professor Vladeck has argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various lower federal civilian and military courts; has testified before numerous congressional committees and Executive Branch agencies and commissions; has served as an expert witness both in U.S. state and federal courts and in foreign tribunals; and has received numerous awards for his influential and widely cited legal scholarship, his prolific popular writing, his teaching, and his service to the legal profession. Vladeck is the co-host of the National Security Law Podcast, CNN’s Supreme Court analyst, and a co-author of Aspen Publishers’ leading national security law and counterterrorism law casebooks. He is currently writing a book on the rise of the Supreme Court's "shadow docket," to be published in May 2023.
Pete Souza is one of our nation’s leading photojournalists—and few have risen to greater prominence. He has worked as an official White House photographer for Ronald Reagan and the chief official White House photographer for Barack Obama. Among many other distinctions, he won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 along with colleagues at the Chicago Tribune, and last year he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. His books include Obama: An Intimate Portrait, one of the bestselling photography books of all time; Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents; and his latest, The West Wing and Beyond: What I Saw Inside the Presidency.
Mark Updegrove and Mark Lawrence talk to Pete about his unique vantage point on the presidency and the presidents he has worked with and captured for history.
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/12031470?utm_source=youtube
Paul Gregory is an expert on Russia and is currently a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. A pioneer in the study of Soviet and Russian economics, his textbook on the Russian economy was used to teach more than two generations of students. But Gregory’s latest book is on a subject that he has been reluctant to address for nearly six decades: his relationship with Lee Harvey Oswald and his young wife Marina. Gregory was one of the few people who actually knew them. His inside account of the Oswalds’s marriage offers a disturbing portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald, whom Gregory believes acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy.
We talked to Gregory about the Lee Harvey Oswald he came to know, someone who possessed the motive, cunning, and killer instinct of a murderer who was desperately vying for a place in history.
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/11811421
Join us as we discuss the political shifts, the complex electorate of the region, different factors that may be driving change, and how the mid-term election might play out.
Panelists:
Cecilia Ballí, writer, journalist and anthropologist, founder of Culture Concepts
Dr. Sergio Garcia-Rios, Associate Director for Research, the Center for the Study Race and Democracy (CSRD) at The University of Texas at Austin
Moderator: Steve Taylor, Editor-in-chief, Rio Grande Guardian
Journalist Ali Vitali is a familiar face on America’s TV screens, having covered politics first for MSNBC and then for NBC News for nearly a decade. She reported on the 2016 race won by President Trump and then returned to the presidential campaign trail in 2020 to cover several Democratic candidates, including the record-setting four women who competed strongly for the nomination.
Ali talked with us about the obstacles that female contenders have faced in running for the presidency over the years, how those challenges might be overcome, and the prospects for election of the nation’s first female president.
Episode link: https://play.headliner.app/episode/11591485
The LBJ Presidential Library, located on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin, is one of 15 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. Dedicated in May 1971, its mission is to preserve and protect the historical materials in its collections and make them readily accessible; to increase public awareness of the American experience through relevant exhibitions and educational programs; and to advance the LBJ Library's standing as a center for intellectual activity and community leadership while meeting the challenges of a changing world.
The program was presented by the LBJ Foundation, All In Together and The 19th News.
The evening included:
Women and the State of American Democracy: a broad-ranging discussion about the state of women in American democracy. How does a democracy change when women are more fully engaged? What are the issues that women most care about, and where is the U.S. relative to nations abroad in the full participation of women in electoral politics?
The Women of Afghanistan —and the World: a conversation exploring how a once burgeoning democracy has changed since the Taliban regained control of the government, relegating women to a subjugated state. How has Afghanistan society changed? And what nations across the world stand as beacons for what is possible for women in democracy?
A special performance by Lake Street Dive, currently on tour promoting their new album “Fun Machine: The Sequel”
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:52 Women and the State of American Democracy
00:37:15 The Women of Afghanistan
01:10:42 Lake Street Dive


